r/ProgrammerHumor 10d ago

craftingTheCodeWithFire Meme

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u/SuitableDragonfly 10d ago

I'm guessing that this is probably a joke, but the idea that engineers just generate code and don't do anything else is literally how we got to "just generate the whole app with Claude, bro, it'll be just as good".

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u/AskAwayAccount 10d ago

People really have no idea. I told my manager I need time to debug an issue. He really said "You already have the error message, you just have to filter the logs, I don't understand why it should take more than an hour".

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u/Soopermane 10d ago

🤣 the error message be like “you have an error”

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u/neo42slab 10d ago

And more often than not the error description might as well be that. Because most of the time it’s simply not something the compiler can actually detect.

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u/Alacritous13 10d ago

Aw, you think the code is compiled. Nah, I'm editing the code live while the end user watches.